ALPENA — State wildlife biologists have tracked down an elusive bear in Montmorency County that got its head stuck in a plastic lid as a cub, and they removed the lid after the bear wore it for two years. According to a Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) press release, wildlife ...

OSSINEKE — In the 1930s, Paul Domke began a quest to recreate prehistoric dinosaurs. His vision was to present the dinosaurs as they would have appeared while roaming the earth, to show more of the reality than just simply bones as seen in museums. Among the ostrich ferns and the ...

For 25 years I was a fisheries biologist at the DNR’s Lake Huron Research Station in Alpena. One of our many projects was netting lake trout to assess their health each year. To see the fish coming aboard gives the first inkling of what the survey year will tell. I remember in the early ...

As Michigan braces for its first significant heatwave of the season, with temperatures forecast to potentially reach the mid- to upper-90s for much of the state over the next several days, the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (MSP/EMHSD) is urging ...

ALPENA — Longtime Alpena Community Credit Union CEO Ann Boyk recently retired, and Andrew Augustyn moved up to the CEO position. Boyk worked at the credit union for 47 years, and will remain on as executive advisor for one year. She said she has enjoyed working at ACCU, helping credit ...

ATLANTA – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on Friday announced the opening of an additional Disaster Loan Outreach Centers (DLOC) in Montmorency County to assist small businesses, private nonprofits and residents affected by the severe winter storms occurring March 28 through ...